The State Government of State No. 14 issued an order to every City Hall and District Government.
[Every district must vigorously support Qin Siyang's charitable distribution of free food! Anyone obstructing relief efforts will be held accountable!]
Jonathan's directive openly opposed the Information Security Department.
Even if the officials in each district feared the Information Security Department, they could hardly offend the immediate superior who controlled their career prospects.
Thus, any attempts to obstruct Qin Siyang's people in distributing food and recruiting soldiers vanished before they could even take shape.
The Information Security Department seemed to have no further plans. Under Zhao Longfei's covert surveillance, its people all left State No. 14 as though they had received new orders.
Qin Siyang paid this little mind.
They said fragrant flowers attracted butterflies, but they attracted flies as well.
As he grew stronger and expanded his influence, he would inevitably encroach on the interests of more groups. He just had to handle it calmly.
A few more days passed, and recruitment by the Three Brothers of the Wang Family and She Haqiang was largely complete.
Wang Defa and the other three came to report their results to Qin Siyang.
"Brigade Commander, the preliminary screening is nearly complete. As you requested, a total of eight thousand people passed this round. They're assembled beside the Giant Strategic Warehouse, five kilometers from the State Government, awaiting your inspection at any time!"
Qin Siyang's brigade, together with one regiment from the Chu Character Legion, would number roughly four thousand, yet he had asked them to recruit eight thousand.
Since he only had a method to increase ordinary people's chances of awakening a Sequence, rather than a guarantee that every one of them would awaken, he had to leave some margin.
An elimination rate of fifty percent